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This is the second of a series of articles on the American colleges in Turkey, by The Reverend John Ernest Merrill, President of the Central Turkey College, Aintab, Turkey. Dr. Merrill, who is one of the educational leaders of the Near East, recently spoke at the University, at the time of the conference on the Christian Ministry...
This college at Aintab has proven unique in many ways, as it has adopted principles and followed policies which have not received such full recognition elsewhere in Turkey...
...understanding thoroughly the people, must be the ideal. Such a faculty had come into existence before the war, and already there had been a first generation of three such pioneer teachers, trained at Yale and Amherst. The professors of the second generation were men, graduated first at Aintab, who had taken postgraduate work abroad in America, France, Germany or Great Britain. One had his Licen, en Droit from the University of Paris, another his M.A. from Yale, another his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Columbia, another had graduated in Mining Engineering and another had taken his C.E. both at Sheffield Scientific...
Circumstances, radical and political, have led to a distinctive method of study, recitation and lecture. The population of Aintab are Turkish-speaking. The text-books to be used are American. Students are obliged to learn English and French as well as Turkish and Armenian or Arabic, but, with the exception of language lessons, practically all the class room work is conducted in the vernacular. The texts are standard books in American Colleges, like Kimball in Physics, Alex, Smith in Chemistry, Weber in History of Philosophy, Gide in Political Economy, but recitation, discussion and lectures are in the vernacular...
...Aintab falls within the territory of the French mandate in Syria, and seems to be the only interior city where there is an American college, where complete regulations and social freedom will be guaranteed to the entire population, both Christians and Moslems, by a foreign power. There is little doubt that Turkish students will take advantage of the new opportunity. A proof of the new spirit is seen in the fact that since the surrender of the Turks to the French on February 8, 1921, the Turks of Aintab have invited the Americans to take over the management of their...